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The Linguistic Individual: Self-Expression in Language and Linguistics - Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics Johnstone, Barbara (Associate Professor of Linguistics, Associate Professor of Linguistics, Texas A&M University)
The Linguistic Individual: Self-Expression in Language and Linguistics - Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics
Johnstone, Barbara (Associate Professor of Linguistics, Associate Professor of Linguistics, Texas A&M University)
An examination of various discourse genres, showing how choices among linguistic resources are mediated by self-expressive choices. Linguistic consistency across various situations is discussed with the question of how, if language is fundamentally idiosyncratic, people can understand one another.
230 pages, black & white illustrations
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | June 27, 1996 |
| ISBN13 | 9780195101850 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Pages | 232 |
| Dimensions | 156 × 235 × 17 mm · 349 g |
| Language | English |